Taking our message to the world
Posted: August 13th, 2010 | Author: Dean Rush | Filed under: All, Evangelism | Tags: 2 corinthians 5, Ambassadors, C3 Auckland, C3 Church, Dean Rush, Faith, Inspiration, new creation, reconcilliation, taking our message to the world | 1 Comment »
2 Corinthians 5:17-20
Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. The old has gone the new has come.
Before we found Christ we lived differently, we lived for ourselves, we lived to the pattern of this world
Now we are in Christ a change has taken place
Our perspective has changed, we see the world differently, our priorities have changed
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
He has given us a great message – and the message needs to get out
Reconciliation: re-establishing normal relations between belligerents
The world is separated from God by sin and it is our job to bring them back together
It’s a message of hope – a message of transformation
It is a message with legs on it – It is a message with actions following
Lets get the old connotation of missions out of our head
Oh he’s a missions guy, that place is a missions church, oh I’m not a missions person
Missions is about the great commission that Jesus gave to us when he left the earth
Mark 16 Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation
If your not a missions person your not a Jesus person
The message is a demonstration of our faith
James 2: 14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him?
I’m a preacher – but the world doesn’t need to hear another sermon – it needs a demonstration of the message – a message with actions
It’s needs to see a church that takes the message out to neighborhoods’, cities and nations
I am excited that we are a church that is willing to step out and demonstrate our faith with actions
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors
We need to understand that we represent Christ in this world – His appeal comes through us
If we don’t get out and do it – the message will not get out
Lets make a great appeal
Many Christians today have lost their mission
They don’t know where they fit and what they can do
But we are all called by Christ to bring this message of hope to a lost world
The scripture says – we are Christ’s ambassadors – what an amazing calling
The church has lost it’s mission – without our calling we are just a social club
And that is what many churches are satisfied in doing
But as we are baptized into Christ – we are baptized into a calling to change the world
I am so blessed to be leading a church that takes it’s calling seriously
Bono from the band U2 said this you can’t fix all the problems – but the ones you can you must
And we can fix some problems
Lets take our message to the world
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